: a sentimental story or account intended chiefly to evoke sympathy or sadness
Examples of sob story in a Sentence
She told a sob story about how she had to starve herself to pay for the rent.
I don't want to hear any of your sob stories.
Recent Examples on the WebGranted, $7 million with performance incentives is a galaxy away from a sob story.—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024 But the change of clothes did not hide the horrors the girl had gone through, and Candelario’s sob story started unraveling.—Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024 There’s the sob story, the gallant bildungsroman, the louche chronicle of various addictive behaviors, the righteous making of an activist, the victory lap.—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023 When the fashion publicist opened up about her upbringing, she was accused of creating a sob story in comparison to Sai and Brynn’s raw stories about their childhoods.—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for sob story
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